How to Integrate TIC with Cloud-First for Enhanced Agency Security

NextGov: When the Trusted Internet Connections initiative was first introduced more than a decade ago, the goal was to improve security in government IT systems by limiting the number of individual external network connections to the internet.

Before implementing TIC architecture, federal agencies could connect to the internet however and wherever they wanted, resulting in hundreds of different connections for each agency. With more than a hundred different agencies and federal executive branch departments, this created thousands of unique points of entry to the internet, making it nearly impossible to monitor and secure each connection.

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